Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 5.12.2016 г. - 217 страници In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies. |
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... narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where' of the ...
... narrative of archetypal characters in conflicting relationships that ends in tragedy. Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century is about these two versions of Genesis, about the interplay between the inaccessible 'no-where' of the ...
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... narrative, and it is here that the relationship between them may best be glimpsed. The first book of the Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be ...
... narrative, and it is here that the relationship between them may best be glimpsed. The first book of the Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be ...
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... narrative of the world as it is. At the same time, I also use Theodor W. Adorno's term “utopian consciousness” to refer to the difficult possibility of imagining a utopia lacking any traces of ideology.8 The concern of the prophetic ...
... narrative of the world as it is. At the same time, I also use Theodor W. Adorno's term “utopian consciousness” to refer to the difficult possibility of imagining a utopia lacking any traces of ideology.8 The concern of the prophetic ...
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... narratives within the book of Genesis . Published anonymously , Astruc's Conjectures is an oddity in the work of a man known primarily for his second- hand erudition and theoretical conservatism in the realm of medicine.1 His manual of ...
... narratives within the book of Genesis . Published anonymously , Astruc's Conjectures is an oddity in the work of a man known primarily for his second- hand erudition and theoretical conservatism in the realm of medicine.1 His manual of ...
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... narrative of the creation , the fall , and exile into the world ; the remainder of Genesis is more specifically devoted to ancient Hebrew history and the lives of the Patriarchs within that world . Long before the documentary hypothesis ...
... narrative of the creation , the fall , and exile into the world ; the remainder of Genesis is more specifically devoted to ancient Hebrew history and the lives of the Patriarchs within that world . Long before the documentary hypothesis ...
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Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
The Passion of JeanJacques Rousseau or the Dystopia Within | |
Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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